The most recent bottle that i purchased was 2 months ago, which came in a transparent flask-shaped bottle. Before that, I got an opaque black flask-bottle about 8 months ago, and before that, a transparent tube-shaped bottle over a year ago.
They supposedly took out the vanilla scent because it was warping the plastic bottles, but I think my new bottle still smells vanilla-ish.
-Raymond
edit: i just checked clearkote.net and the pictured VM looks just like my first bottle from over a year ago.